CARLOS SANTANA / JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Love Devotion Surrender 1973 UK CBS NEAR MINT
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CARLOS SANTANA / JOHN MCLAUGHLIN Love Devotion Surrender 1973 UK CBS NEAR MINT

CARLOS SANTANA / MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
Love Devotion Surrender

1973 UK CBS (S 69037) FIRST PRESSING

NICE ORIGINAL COPY WHICH LOOKS UNPLAYED

PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE SOLID ORANGE CBS LABELS
MATRIX: S69037 A1 PN / 69037 B1
THE RECORD IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL HEAVY DUTY MATT GATEFOLD SLEEVE PRINTED BY “Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England”
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL CBS ADVERTISING INNER SLEEVE

 A hopelessly misunderstood record in its time by Santana fans -- they were still reeling from the radical direction shift toward jazz on Caravanserai and praying it was an aberration -- it was greeted by Santana devotees with hostility.
To hear this recording in the context of not only Carlos Santana's development as a guitarist, but as the logical extension of the music of John Coltrane and Miles Davis influencing rock musicians -- McLaughlin, of course, was a former Davis sideman -- this extension makes perfect sense.
With the exception of Coltrane's "Naima" and McLaughlin's "Meditation," this album consists of merely three extended guitar jams played on the spiritual ecstasy tip -- both men were devotees of guru Shri Chinmoy at the time.
The assembled band included members of Santana's band and the Mahavishnu Orchestra in Michael Shrieve, Billy Cobham, Doug Rauch, Armando Peraza, Jan Hammer (playing drums!), and Don Alias.
But it is the presence of the revolutionary jazz organist Larry Young -- a colleague of McLaughlin's in Tony Williams' Lifetime band -- that makes the entire project gel. He stands as the great communicator harmonically between the two very different guitarists whose ideas contrasted enough to complement one another in the context of Young's aggressive approach to keep the entire proceeding in the air.
In the acknowledgement section of Coltrane's "A Love Supreme," which opens the album, Young creates a channel between Santana's riotous, transcendent, melodic runs and McLaughlin's rapid-fire machine-gun riffing.
Young' double-handed striated chord voicings offered enough for both men to chew on, leaving free-ranging territory for percussive effects to drive the tracks from underneath. Check "Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord," which was musically inspired by Bobby Womack's "Breezing" and dynamically foreshadowed by Pharoah Sanders' read of it, or the insanely knotty yet intervallically transcendent "The Life Divine," for the manner in which Young's organ actually speaks both languages simultaneously.
Young is the person who makes the room for the deep spirituality inherent in these sessions to be grasped for what it is: the interplay of two men who were not merely paying tribute to Coltrane, but trying to take his ideas about going beyond the realm of Western music to communicate with the language of the heart as it united with the cosmos.
After four decades, Love Devotion Surrender still sounds completely radical and movingly beautiful

Side 1:
A Love Supreme (7:48)
Naima (3:09)
The Life Divine (9:30)
Side 2:
Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord (15:45)
Meditation (2:45)

LABELS: MINT
No spindle traces or any sign the record has been played
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both sides are unmarked and shine like new
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays like-new with just an occasional one-off tick noted - nothing major and nothing else to fault
SLEEVE: NEAR MINT
Apart from a little touch of storage rub on the edges - nothing really - the cover is like new

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